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The 6th Africa Movie Academy Awards took place in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria, last Saturday and, sweeping the board with 13 out of 24 prizes, including Best Film and Best Director, was a film that was featured here on this blog last December, Kunle Afolayan’s supposed game-changing Nollywood film The Figurine.
I didn’t see it when it played to packed audiences at the London African Film Festival last year, but a certain someone we all know was supposed to have seen it just this last weekend (as it was picking up all the prizes in Nigeria) and so we may just get a review and find out if it’s the Nollywood film that could potentially break out and go mainstream. The premise, is interesting enough – the chance find of a centuries old figurine that bestows seven years of good luck followed by seven years...
The 6th Africa Movie Academy Awards took place in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria, last Saturday and, sweeping the board with 13 out of 24 prizes, including Best Film and Best Director, was a film that was featured here on this blog last December, Kunle Afolayan’s supposed game-changing Nollywood film The Figurine.
I didn’t see it when it played to packed audiences at the London African Film Festival last year, but a certain someone we all know was supposed to have seen it just this last weekend (as it was picking up all the prizes in Nigeria) and so we may just get a review and find out if it’s the Nollywood film that could potentially break out and go mainstream. The premise, is interesting enough – the chance find of a centuries old figurine that bestows seven years of good luck followed by seven years...
- 4/14/2010
- by MsWOO
- ShadowAndAct
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